Living local in Eugene, OR
Posted in Appetizer - dips, Eugene/Southern Willamette Valley, Garden, Recipes, Specialty stores, Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2009
Buying a plant start of an unknown vegetable variety can be risky business. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is a story about a winner.
Coming off of a successful tomatillo experience in 2008, we decided to expand our horizons this year. A few months ago we drove down to Territorial Seed Company in Cottage [...]
Posted in Markets & farms on Jul 27th, 2009
This week has been cherry madness in our house. We ended up canning 16 half pints of cherry jam, several pints of cherry dessert sauce, drying some, and still yet making two half gallons of cherry sherry and one half gallon of cherry vinegar. As Matt mentioned in his previous post, cherries are my favorite [...]
Posted in Markets & farms on Jul 20th, 2009
We had a great cherry orchard adventure this weekend at Hentze Family Farm. This fruit is my co-author’s favorite and they rate in my top 3. The farm hosted a festival on Saturday, but we went a day later.
We proceeded directly to the retail shop thinking we’d just pick up a few varieties and [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 11th, 2009
Announcement, announcement. We are doing a cookbook giveaway for Eating Close to Home. You may remember me writing about Eating Close to Home a few months ago when it was first published. The first recipe we tried was Salmon and Corn Chowder and we were hooked. Now we want to share the book with one [...]
Posted in Specialty stores on Apr 10th, 2009
A quick post to let you all know about an annual bee event happening at GloryBee Foods this weekend. They are offering beekeeping demonstrations and honey tasting, while local beekeepers pick-up their bees. We might go check it out because we are thinking about keeping honey bees next year.
The event seems to be under the [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Fruits, Grains & legumes, Markets & farms on Mar 27th, 2009
After purchasing twelve blueberry plants this week, I had blueberries on my mind. Luckily, we still have lots in the freezer from last summer. This recipe is a healthy breakfast treat, a great alternative to our standard toast with butter and jam. It has almost no sugar in it, just a little brown sugar for [...]
Posted in Garden, Markets & farms on Mar 11th, 2009
All eleven fruit trees arrived within a couple days late last week, so we have been digging a lot since last weekend. So far, we have seven of them planted - with two pears and two cherries left to plant. The Danube cherry and Mirabelle plum were purchased from Raintree and the rest were purchased [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Soups on Mar 6th, 2009
Matt has been feeling under the weather most of the week and chicken soup was the perfect antidote. The broth tastes much like chicken tortilla soup. It has a little kick from the dried chile and cumin, which I think is better for sinuses and dulled tastebuds than plain chicken soup.
The soup was also a [...]
Posted in Grains & legumes, Markets & farms, Salads on Mar 2nd, 2009
I am still reeling from an amazing weekend and will hopefully be posting a recap of Organicology and our visit to Beast in a future post. For now, I will share a great recipe, again out of the Heirloom Beans cookbook. The recipe recommends Wren’s Egg beans, but I used Ayers Creek Farm borlotto lamon [...]
After learning about bees in last week’s Master Gardener class, I was inspired to create a home for mason bees. We are considering keeping honey bees as well, but that takes a bit more of a commitment than putting up a little house on an east wall.
Part of the motivation for the bees is our [...]
